The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

I may be the wrong person for my life.